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If you own a modern lappy that only takes 7mm drives you've been unable to upgrade it to a 2TB HDD as the only drives with that capacity are the regular 9.5mm height. No more! Seagate has just managed to squeeze a whole terabyte onto a single platter, so that they can achieve 2TB in a 7mm housing. The model number is ST2000LM009. I've no idea about the price, but they are likely to be selling in stores at well below £100 in a few months.

Amazing that the powers that be at the Brussels Broadcasting Corporation have decided - that after three or four months of an unfilled "job" - that BBC TV doesn't actually need a £320,000 p/a Director of Television. Even more amazing that BBC2 no longer needs to replace the departing Controller of BBC2 at exactly the same time. The loss of recruitment advertising revenue to The Guardian must be painful too; can it actually survive on such thin gruel? Sort of makes you wonder what these people ever did for their juicy salaries and their perks. It certainly can't have been to ensure impartiality! Maybe that satire on the BBC W1A wasn't too much of a satire after all? The thing about the BBC is that after all these "shake-ups", and the taking out of layers of management, there always seems to be plenty of room for another pruning.

At the sort of range this would have been at it's likely more than a low power laser pen. It's quite easy to get hold of medium/high power lasers, and they are relatively cheap. Terrorism a distinct possibility; if not in this particular instance then soon.

What sort of spin do you think our German cousins would put on this Maggie? Surely they want the UK's payola to continue, as without us they'd have to fund the whole political experiment themselves? Or maybe many of our German cousins can be totally honest too? I know you don't like links but this one to Der Spiegel is an eye opener - assuming your eyes hadn't already been opened. Brexit Danger: The EU Strategy to Keep Britain from Leaving Note that they published this on 5th January, and so far Der Spiegel has it 100% correct. Anyone who's naive enough to believe that Cameron is being honest with us; that he's not working to a pre-agreed script, and that the whole negotiation thing isn't a total con trick being perpetrated on the British public needs to think again! Like Blair he has an Oxford degree in conning the public, and just like Blair he's doing this for his own benefit and the benefit of his elitist chums. The reward - he hopes - will be presidency of the United States of Europe, and if he fails in that he's totally guaranteed a position on the EU commissariat with all the other failed politicos. There they never have to submit themselves to nasty messy things like elections ever again!

Wow you've been on overtime there TGH! You say you believe in democracy and then you say "TGH-proposal: We stay IN and GET IT SORTED OUT…". How do you think that is going to happen? The EU is fundamentally undemocratic, and it is almost entirely top down. Policy is made by the commissioners, not by our MEPs, so there's no point in berating our North East MEPs - they are only there to give the illusion of democracy. Those are our overlords led by Herr Juncker in the middle. No one elected them, and no one can dismiss them in the way you advocate! They are mostly failed politicos who've made a mess of running their own countries, and have been slung out of office by their respective electorates. Voting to stay in plays right into their hands. This is likely the only opportunity we have to say no, and if you throw it away you've given them the approval they need for their post-democratic society. Amongst other things these people have removed a democratically elected PM in Italy, and installed their own puppet, and will do the same elsewhere. They pay no heed to referendum results, and keep putting the same question in different ways until they get the answer they want, because these elitist post-democrats know better than any electorate. Thanks for the TTIP link. I'm not an Indy reader, but their view accords with mine, and they are - of course - dead right! This is yet another reason any informed person can only vote leave! I'm sorry you don't know about EFTA. We used to be EFTA members and it worked very well for us. I remember sending stuff from Bedlington Post Office to Scandinavia with a very minimum of form filling, and no worries that they buyer would get stuck for any extra charges or have customs hassle. It's actually what we were promised the EEC was, but we were lied to! At the time I couldn't understand why we were turning our back on our EFTA partners, because I took what the politicos were saying at face value. The possibility that Ted Heath was lying through his teeth never entered my silly young mind. If you want to legitimise those lies go right ahead and vote IN, but you'd be making a huge mistake that our children and their children will have to face the consequences of.

I've been watching the sign ups for the Leave.eu campaign over the past few weeks and they are now noticeably accelerating. It's a bit difficult to find any figures for the posher "rival" Vote Leave campaign though it seems to have gone a long way to sorting its internal problems, but seemingly not before Labour Leave has withdrawn its support in favour of the totally united Grassroots Out initiative. For me Vote Leave was always a bit too close to the elites, and I couldn't understand why Kate Hoey (and even Ronnie Campbell) wanted to cuddle up with them. Its agenda is (or was) to leave with an intention of rejoining the EU on the UK's own terms. I think this is verging on the naive, as if you accept that the EU is a political construct unwilling to reform and headed for disaster, then how is Brexit going to change that? It's a bit like saying that this marriage clearly isn't working, so I'm going for divorce in order to give my partner a jolt so that we can ultimately remarry on my terms. Actually our perfect partner still out there, and we foolishly jilted her for the over madeup gold digger with the fake boobs. Her name is EFTA and she's still waiting for us to come to our senses, and take her in our arms! Whatever your core politics it's now time to GO! There's a wonderful life awaiting outside of the EU, and all this nonsense, dreamed up the international elites for their own enrichment, simply has to end.

The referendum campaign hasn't yet started - at least that's what Dave is telling the government ministers who want to put their country before their careers and their mega-pension prospects as EU drones. So, Dave's pronouncement about migrants in Kent mustn't have anything to do with the coming referendum then? Of course the Brussels Broadcasting Corporation has given this piece of scaremongering the maximum publicity it can, whilst neutering the responses of the many informed people pointing out the absurdity of what he's claiming. On last night's Radio 4 news they dredged up all the EUphile supporters they could muster whilst clipping Liam Fox's rebuttal to the bare minimum to provide the usual illusion of balance. Dave's fallacious argument and his supportive minions got about 85% of the total air time too. I'd though about filing a complaint, but, having jumped through BBC hoops a couple of times before I can more or less re-create the automated replies from memory. A large number of interest groups have rubbished EU Daves' scaremongering, including top people in the immigration service, and the Lawyers for Brexit group, who quite rightly point out that the intergovernmental deal has nothing whatsoever to do with the EU. But, I'm simply going to quote Bernard Cazeneuve the current French Interior Minister speaking very recently. Bernard Cazeneuve would have been the obvious "ask" for an unbiased BBC, but they carefully selected the deputy Mayor of Calais - someone who has no authority at national level, and is under huge local pressure from the electorate to get the migrants off their patch.

What's wrong with a PM (Now simply called "Message")? Click on member's name ---> Hit [Message] button -- Simples! Newbies and/or people who haven't validated their e-mail may not show in the who's online, certainly search engines have been suppressed now.

Most of the time duplicitous politicians need to be treated with the contempt they deserve (I'm looking at you Duplicitous Dave!), but just sometimes their duplicity serves the public interest. An interesting case is the current utterance by Guernsey's chief minister... Not Mr Le Tocq's "negativity" of course, he's fully at ease with the religion of peace, but it simply wouldn't be in Muslim's own best interests to be exposed to less considerate elements on the island. Do I applaud him for this? Well, that would be going too far, but even this seeker after shameless truth does understand that in any society some "little white lies" are necessary for social cohesion. There's obviously a significant minority on the island who will only face up to the consequences of Islamisation when they are staring the irreversible reality of their folly fully in the face; getting yourself unelected is no way to protect those particular electors from their own delusions.

Ah, the Schroedinger Uncertainty Pick-sical? Nope, Albie didn't buy into any of that puss-e-cat nonsense. Surely he claimed "God does not play dice with picked noses"? Though... I can't state that with any certainty.

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So, once again the European Court overrules inter-government agreements. And here, not being in Schengen is acting against our interests rather than providing us with the alleged cushion. Zero hope then for EUroCam being allowed to hang onto any minor crumbs now thrown to him by other EU governments! But of course he knows that, and once the referendum is out of the way he can resume expressing outrage and surprise before caving in completely. We've been here before over the "surprise" £1.7bn demand from Brussels, and all the false outrage and posturing before paying the bill in a more convoluted way.

..and.. I though this might be a mention of just how well 'canny' Iceland was doing since leaving the EU! Now be reasonable here! If the American political parties and their politically appointed senior judiciary put bankers in jail it would kill the symbiotic relationship. Jail is for really serious offences like sticking up a drug store for ten bucks; lining your own pockets with hundreds of millions shouldn't even count as a misdemeanour.

We all want "the betterment of mankind and the world in general", the disagreement is in exactly what that would look like! And... that's where "personal agendas" come in. Seems to me the real delusion is that if you keep on electing the same people with the same outdated ideas then somehow sometime things will change. Einstein put it more generally:

Hit the [Discussion] tab and look for Popular Contributors up top right. If you don't see this it's because your screen is too small - use a computer or tablet. Nice to see we now have a jockeying for position.

Yes Maggie, it's good to take your ideas on morality from the Guardian. It's the right kind of morality, and having pseudo-intellectuals doing your thinking for you removes the risk of falling into morality traps. If you are a state broadcaster it even saves having to write the manual. Are those students at Oriel College "extremely serious creatures"? They're extremely serious about being over-indulged, and serious about their feelings of victimisation (but actually only Guardian readers need take them seriously). I'm not a huge Chris Patten fan, but it sounds like Oxford has the right man for the "job". If you are quick you might just catch a play called Utopia on iPlayer. It needs to be part of all those Oriel students courses.

Comes as a bit of a shock. Another part of our culture takes a hit!

You mean just like the Northumberland all-party Leave.eu campaign Maggie? Based in Bedlington of course!!! http://leave.eu/en/local-groups/group/northumberland-leaveeu National membership is now well over 450,000, and it's growing by the hour. National website and new member registration at leave.eu

So, exactly the opposite of SNP claims! Well... the SNP got the world oil price so right too! So, as the referendum approaches we can expect more and more alarmist nonsense from those who will really lose out: global business, the political elites, and in particular euro politicians.

Preventing hotlinking (Inline linking) is relatively easy and fairly common, preventing determined copying is near impossible. I suspect this is probably a "user problem" or a browser problem. More information needed. <insert blurb about copyright infringement, and reasonable/academic reuse>

Hmmm... I can't see a problem. I saved that to my W10 desktop first, and then clicked on ", or choose files..." It could be The Guardian is protecting their graphics from direct linking?

OK I understand, this problem is forum specific then.

I will check this forum permissions shortly Foxy, but no one has complained before and I don't think they have been touched for years. BTW I've raised a few (unrelated) issues about the display of images in the gallery with Andy, and I'm told that fixes are already on the way.

Oooo touchy!! I may have linked to the DM at some point, but I'm certainly not a DM reader. And, you haven't read what I wrote, else you would have read straight through my remark about the inevitability of Islamic domination. It likely won't happen, but in process the wooly-minded left is going to forfeit our democracy, and much innocent blood will be spilled. The level of migrancy into Europe is totally unsustainable, and the myth that it is economically beneficial for the indigenous people is an outright lie. There's far more to it than simple economics though, and an ever increasing number of Europeans feel totally betrayed by "out of touch" politicos. You are either with your own people or against them. I stand firmly with them, and anyone who is prepared to defend an internationalist view of the world that's set upon erasing national identity and cultures is a cultural Marxist patsy in my book. Sure there are excesses on the right, but its not action it's pure reaction, and your over-simplistic view fails to take into account the why! The left right dichotomy is no longer valid; international capital and Marxist forces are working to common purpose, ably backed by our political elites. You surely won't accept this (yet!) but your view of things is completely outdated; it's a view forced on you by so-called political correctness, and coldly-calculated appeals to humanitarian instincts. Apply the Roman doctrine of cui bono to see through your mental haze!